[German]On May 13, 2021, there were security updates for Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1809 in the Enterprise and Education variants for the last time on Patchday. And also for Windows 10 version 1909, the supply with security updates ends for the Home and Pro variants. All these Windows 10 versions have thus reached the end of support.
[German]Another short addendum to this week's May patchday. Some users are finding that the Windows 10 cumulative update KB5003173 cannot be installed. Instead, the update installation fails with error 0x800f0922. The cause is the Legacy Edge browser removed from the Windows 10 build. Here is some information about it.
[German]Following Google's Chrome update, Microsoft has released the Edge 90.0.818.62 update on May 13, 2021. The update fixes various vulnerabilities that have already been fixed in Google Chrome.
[German]The dust is slowly lifting around the successful ransomware attack on the US utility Colonial Pipeline. In the meantime, it has become known that the company probably "wasted" a ransom of 5 million US dollars. There was a decryption key, but importing backups was faster. In addition, an audit revealed serious security flaws in the company's IT. For example, a Microsoft Exchange server had security vulnerabilities. Here is a summary of the latest findings from this case.
[German]The DarkSide cyber gang, responsible for many ransomware attacks provided "as-a-service" announced it's shutdown after they lost control of it's servers. They claim that their servers where seized and the cryptocurrency was transferred from their account to an unknown wallet. That was claimed in a message posted within he Russian OSINT Telegram channel and also on the cyber gangs web site. Addendum: An analysis showed that the gang collected $17.5 million ransome.
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[German]SPAM e-mails with fake appointment invitations from unknown persons are piling up in mailboxes. The complaints about such fake invitations are raising. The scan is a clever way to steal and/or abuse data of the recipients. After I received such an appointment invitation for the first time, I'm decided to write a blog post.
[German]Microsoft has updated a diagnostic tool called SetupDiag. SetupDiag is a standalone diagnostic tool that can be used to obtain details about why a Windows 10 upgrade was unsuccessful. I've introduced an older version within my blog post Windows 10: Diagnose tool SetupDiag.
[German]As of May 11, 2021, administrators found that no Windows updates were found in the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS). After a few hours, the problem resolved. Now Microsoft has confirmed the problem nor provided some hints.
[German]On May 11, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft has released several security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. Here is an overview of the available updates.
[German]German BSI and security researchers has issued a warning because a vulnerability called FRAGAttack allows millions of WLAN devices to be attacked locally. The vulnerability affects all WLAN standards (up to WPA3). Fortunately, this vulnerability can only be attacked if the attacker is in the WLAN's reception range. Here is some information about FRAGAttack.
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